5. Is it my imagination, or is Wednesday the only night of the week there's no college football on?

6. I saw myself recently on HDTV. I don't have a face for radio, I have a face for ham radio.

7. They say that marijuana is a gateway drug to more serious substance abuse. Sporting-wise, I view baseball's newfangled replay review as a similar threat.

8. China has so many TV sets, right now somebody in Beijing is watching Milton Berle.

(Column Intermission I: I have found an antidote to mindlessly watching sports TV every weekend. According to the New York Times, a Buddhist temple in Thailand offers, for a small fee, the chance to climb into a coffin while monks chant a dirge, then climb out again cleansed and reborn. I'm going to do this during March Madness, and I am also recommending this to everyone at ESPN.)

9. If the marketplace drives America, how is there not a women's beach volleyball network?

10. With Chris Russo now beamed worldwide on satellite radio, I sure hope Martians don't have weapons of mass destruction.